Device for forming wire hat-frames.



PATENTED APR. 1-4, 1908;

W. M. JAMESON. DEVICE FOR FORMING WIRE HATFRAMES.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 17, 1906,

THE mums PETERS co." WASHINGTON, n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WINTHROP M. JAMESON, OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEVICE FOR FORMING WIRE HAT-FRAMES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WINTHROP M. JAME- soN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cambridge, in the county of Middle sex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Devices for Forming Wire Hat-Frames, of whichthe following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object the production of a device for forming wire hat frames for ladies hats, and in particular frames of this class made up of a series of round-and-round wires, and a series of foreand-aft wires radiating from a common center and attached to the round-and-round wires by being twisted around them. Hat frames of this character are made up in various regular and irregular shapes with circular, elongated, flat, indented and straight or bell crowns, and with brims and coronets varying in shape according to the design. It is essential in devices for forming these frames that the wire supporting members shall be capable of adjustment to produce all these various forms of frames, and further, that when the frame is formed and completed that the wire supporting members may be moved to permit the removal of the completed frame without disturbing their adjustment, so that when the device is once set in position for any given design, any desired number of hat frames may be formed thereon.

The present invention discloses a device which responds to all these requirements of a successful device for forming wire hat. frames, and which is extremely simple and strong in its construction.

The leading features of the invention will be seen from the accompanying specification and will be particularly pointed out in the ap ended claims.

11 the drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation, partly in cross-section, of the device showing the wire sup orting members in'position along the line 0 one of the foreand-aft wires; Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing but a part of the device and showing the wire supporting members arranged in a slightly different we to secure the same result; Fig. 3 is a top p an view of the device as shown in Fig. 1 only two sets of Wire supporting members being Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March 17, 1906.

shown in position Patented April 14, 1908. Serial No. 306,496.

Fig. 4 is a detail partially in cross section of the'device to show the construction and operation of the clamping means for each wire supporting member.

The device comprises a suitable standard or support A, which may be of any desired orm and height, and may rest upon or be secured to the floor or a suitable bench or table. Supported upon thestandard or support are a series of substantially radially-arranged vertical guides B for the wire supporting members. In the preferred form of the device illustrated and for convenience of manufacture these guides are cast integral with a base made in two parts 0 and D. The guides B are preferably slotted throughout their length to provide for the support and adjustment of the wire supporting members.

Each guide B is provided with a series of. wire supportingmembers in the form preferably of straight, round rods E, provided at the upper end with a recess or notch, herein shown as of annular form for receiving and holding the round-and-round wires of the frame.

Each wire supporting member is adjusted and held in position against the flat, vertical side of the guide B by means of a clamping bolt F which passes through the slot in the guide and surrounds or grasps the wire supportingmember. Asuitablefasteningmeans, such as a nut G, threaded on the end of the bolt F acts to hold and lock each member E in its adjusted position by drawing it tightly against the vertical face of its guide B.

It will thus be seen that each Wire supporting member may be adjusted radially of the device and the frame to be formed by moving the clamping bolt F longitudinall of the guide B in the slot, that it may be a justed vertically by moving it up and down in the clampin bolt, and that it may-be ad- 'usted angular y by swinging the clamping olt in the slot of the guide B. This individual attachment of each Wire supportin member to the guide, and this variety and facility of adjustment enables the various wire supporting members to be set into any desired form for a hat frame.

The device is shown adjusted in two ways in Figs. 1 and 2. In Fig. 1 those wire supand {round crown wire are shown as rovided with a series of notches 6, so that the point where a round-and-round head wire or a round-and'round frame wire should be, happen to fall, directly below the point for the round-andround crown wire, and it should be desirable to maintain the wire sup porting members vertical, then one of these notches e could be used to support such round-andround head or frame wire. In Fig. 2 the device is shown as set up for a similar frame as shown in Fig. 1, but without makin use of any notches e and by simply adjusting in an angular direction the wire sup orting members.

T e number of wire supporting members is not fixed, and it depends upon the range of frames to be made upon a given device. have shown different numbers in Figs. 1 and 2, and I have also shown in Fig. 1 a differ ent number for the rear portion of the frame from that for the front portion.

After the wire supporting members have once been set in position, any number of wire frames may be formed thereon in the usual way, that is, by winding wires round? and-round, as indicated at a for the brim wires, at b for the head wire, and at c for the crown wire. The fore-and-aft wires, one only of which is indicated in dotted lines at d, are then put in position by being twisted about the round-and-round wires close to the side of the wire supporting members.

When the wire brim is completed it is essential that it be removed from without disturbing the adjusted position of the wire supporting members. 'To secure this end it is necessary to contract the figure formed by the ends of the wire supporting members to such an extent as to free the hat frame therefrom and allow its removal, or in other words, to change the position of a plurality of the guides to which the wire suporting members are rigidly held in their adusted positions by the clamping bolts. result is secured in the preferred form of my invention by makin the base upon which the guides are former; in two parts C and D, one part, as C, bein attached fast to the support or standard as by screws G, and the other part as D being hinged to the fixed ,art 0, as shown at H. In this construction after the hat frame has been formed the plurality of guides carried by the movable Cpart D of the base are swung upwardly an inthus carrying wit them a plurality of series of wire sup orting members, so that the upper ends of t e various wire supportin: members are brought towards one anot er and the figure formed by the ends of said members is contracted to allow the removal of the hat frame but without in any way disturbing the position of any wire supporting member wit respect to its guide.

The articular construction of the base C, D, is immaterial, although it is here shown as a web extending from one slotted guide to the other, and provided with slots or K close to the front the device This ported thereby,

,port to be changed to allow t e vertical faces of each uide to allow the ass'age of wire supportmg members. In t iis form it adds weight to the structure and tends to hold the device in suitable position, but any form of construction whereby the radial guides may be sup ported from the standard and a plurality of them moved to contract the figure formed by the ends of the wire su porting members without disturbing the ad usted relation of the wire su porting members to their respective guic es is within the scope of this invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A device for forming wire hat frames, comprising a support or standard, radially arranged, longitudinally slotted guides sup ported thereby, a series of wire supporting members for each guide, individual clamping means for attaching each member to its. slotted guide permitting vertical and lateral adjustment of each member on its guide, means permitting the fi gure formed by the ends of said members to be contracted without disturbing their adjusted relations to their respective guides.

2. A device for forming wire hat frames, comprising a support or standard, radially arranged, longitudinally slotted guides supported thereby,

guide, means permitting the figure formed by the ends of said membersto be contracted without disturbing their adjusted relations to their respective guides.

3. A device for forming wire hat frames, comprisin a support or standard, radially arranged longitudinally slotted guides supa series of wire su porting members for each guide, individual (damping means for attaching each member to its slotted guide, permitting a vertical and lateral adjustment of each member on its guide, means permitting the position of a plurality of the guides relatively to their su port to be changed to allow the removal oi the completed frame without disturbing the adjusted position of the members on their re spective guides.

4. A device for forming wire hat frames, comprising a support or standard, radially arran ed ongitudinally slotted guides supporte thereby, a series of wire su porting members for each guide, individual c ampin-g means for attaching each member to'its slotted guide, permitting a vertical, angular and lateral adjustment of each member on its guide, means permitting the position of a plurality of the guides relativel to their sup removal of a series of wire supporting I members for each guide, individual clamping the com leted frame Without disturbing the adj uste position of the members on their respective guides.

5. In a device for forming Wire hat frames, radially arranged, vertically faced guides, a series of Wire su porting members for each guide, individual means for clamping each member against the vertical face of its guide.

6. In a device for forming Wire hat frames, radially arranged, vertically faced guides, a series of Wire supporting members for each guide, a separate clamping bolt for each member passing through the guide and acting to lock the member against the guide, whereby it may be held in any desired position of adjustment.

7. In a device for forming Wire hat frames, radially arranged, longitudinally slotted, vertically faced guides, a series of Wire supporting members for each guide, a separate clamping bolt for each member passing through the slot in the guide and acting to lock the member against the guide, whereby it may be held in any desired position of vertical, angular or lateral adjustment.

8. In a device for forming Wire hat frames, radially arranged, longitudinally slotted, vertically faced guides, a series of Wire supporting members for each guide, a separate clamping bolt for each member passing through the slot and embracing the member, and acting to lock the member against the vertical face of the guide in any desired position of vertical, angular or lateral adjustment.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

VVINTHROP M. J AMESON.

' Witnesses:

JOHN C. EDWARDS, MABEL PARTELoW. 

